Publix Super Markets, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates retail food supermarkets in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. Its supermarkets offer grocery, dairy, produce, deli, bakery, meat, seafood, housewares, and health and beauty care items. The company also has pharmacy and floral departments, as well as conducts commercial bank operations in its supermarkets. As of March 16, 2006, it operated 876 supermarkets. The company was founded in 1921 and is based in Lakeland, Florida.